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Reviewed on June 15, 2013 | Science and Technology
Monk (philosophy, Univ. of Southampton; Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius) sets out to write an "internal" biography of Robert Oppenheimer, one that gives the man's psychological and emotional complexities their due, a difficult task with a subject who was so private. The author also establishes that his goal is to do greater justice to Oppenheimer's physics, placing both Oppenheimer's science and his participation in the public sphere i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More